Something needs to be done in these buslanes and with NJ transit in genera;. I happened to be in that mess this morning... it took me 2 1/2 hrs to get to work and my commute is less than 10 miles. Aside from the fact, that it takes over 2hours to get home where more than 1/2 the time i waiting on line to get the bus. Yes, Sandy affected some things, but NJ Transit is progessively getting worse. Why they wait until we didn't move for 45mins to have us reverse out of the buslane is questionable... I am sick of spending 4+hrs to commute less than 20 miles roundtrip... and commuting costs just keep going up,up,up because they can't manage the money nor the buses.

1:40 pm November 12, 2012

longshotken wrote:

if you dont like it drive your car into the city

1:42 pm November 12, 2012

Radek wrote:

I was in the same traffic snarl. It was ridiculous. I spent a wondrous 5 hours getting into the city on the bus.

2:09 pm November 12, 2012

MKhan wrote:

After my 3+ hour long commute I went and spoke with the NJTransit guys, and they blamed it on the Port Authority. There's an apparent divide between the two companies (I thought it was owned by the same company). As Badly as I think NjTransit operates, it appears to be there is a bottle neck issue. There have been so many times where we get to the tunnel as scheduled but then it takes another 30-40minutes to get through the tunnel and into the port. Going home it takes 20-30 minutes to exit the port and it's smooth sailing after that. We need the port authority to take responsibility for their work. We're not asking them to be great, or even average. Just be slightly below average and we'll be satisfied. We're asking for a 60% success rate during rush hour. 3 out of 5.

2:12 pm November 12, 2012

Mkhan wrote:

To the genius who said take your car into the city. Taking the car doesn't avoid the traffic! In fact if all the commuters starting taking their cars into the city, imagine the traffic then?
Today was a system wide failure by the Port Authority Bus Terminals.

3:15 pm November 12, 2012

pwbnyc wrote:

There is a bike lane over the GWB that then connects up with the westside bike way with a clear shot all the way down Manhattan. While I realize it is not practical for many there are hundreds of thousands of people close enough to make use of their bikes to commute into the City, and avoid all of this.

4:18 pm November 12, 2012

Annoyed wrote:

I was stuck in that traffic as well. Took 4.5 hours to get from Linden, NJ to Port Authority. We sat in the Tunnel for 2.5-3 hrs of that time. I really feel badly for people who have unforgiving leadership and will terminate people for coming into work late. I don't care if it is PANYNJ or NJT some neutral committee needs to assess the divide between these two agencies and get this together!

5:31 pm November 12, 2012

nobs wrote:

It looks we need to get Bloomberg and Christie on one room finally 2weeks after Sandy!

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